Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA Summer Workshops
Summer 2023 Workshops: we are excited to offer workshops at CCRMA this year! There are a wide variety of offerings, some in person, some on line, and some hybrid. Have a look! More will be announced as they're organized, so check back with us frequently!
[Check out the schedule] [Register for workshops]
There will be opportunities for financial assistance for some workshops - check specific pages for more details.
COVID Policies
See CCRMA's COVID policies for 2023.
CCRMA WAVE (Wall for AudioVisual Expression) presents
Upcoming Events
Joudi Nox: Wine & Cry
Date:
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Join us in an evening where Joudi Nox performs a selections of her saddest original songs Opening acts: Elena Sword and Sami Wurm
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream - ‹‹
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CCRMA's Online Classes
CCRMA currently offers several online courses to the general public:
Chris Chafe "ONLINE JAMMING AND CONCERT TECHNOLOGY"Perry Cook and Julius Smith "PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS FOR GAMES AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS"
Jay LeBoeuf "CAREERS IN MEDIA TECHNOLOGY"
Xavier Serra and Julius Smith "AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MUSIC APPLICATIONS"
Matt Wright (with David Zicarelli) "PROGRAMMING MAX: STRUCTURING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL ARTS"
Recent Events
Samual Yang (Google) - ML meets hearing - Clarity Enhancement Challenge
Date:
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
The Clarity Enhancement Challenge is a (successful) attempt to harness machine-learning technology to make our hearing better. The Clarity team provides data and benchmarks, and all of us get to apply our best technology to solve the problem. In past years they have offered competitions to improve hearing and to measure speech intelligibility.
Free
Open to the Public
Hassan Estakhrian: Butterflies in Disguise
Date:
Thu, 05/18/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Hassan Estakhrian presents his album Butterflies in Disguise.
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream Iran Sanadzadeh: Ocean, Again
Date:
Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
Performing on the Terpsichora Pressure-Sensitive Floors, an electronic instrument controlled by whole-body movement, Iran Sanadzadeh performs from her upcoming debut album, Ocean, Again. This performance uses the gestural vocabulary learned on the instrument to control a large number of sonic parameters with few controls. The sonic aesthetic, minimal in starting material, weaves dichotomies resulting from unintuitive mappings on the instrument to find new sound associations. This work wonders if between the embodied feeling of movement and sonic stasis, small actions and rapid change, new experiences of musical structure might be formed.
Pre-show talk with the artist at 6pm
The Terpsichora Floors: Design and Performance from Interface to Instrument
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream Pre-show talk with the artist at 6pm
The Terpsichora Floors: Design and Performance from Interface to Instrument
Antje Ihlefeld - Predicting spatial audio quality for AR/VR
Date:
Fri, 05/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Seminar Room
Event Type:
Hearing Seminar 
FREE
Open to the Public
Recent News
Hearables Will Monitor Your Brain and Body to Augment Your Life, by Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum recently published a fascinating article in IEEE's magazine Spectrum on the potential future of wearables/hearables.
Quote from the article:
Quote from the article:
ARTFUL DESIGN — A new (comic) book by Ge Wang!
What is the nature of design, and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well -- to design ethically? How can the shaping of technology reflect our values as human beings? These are the questions addressed in Ge Wang's new book, ARTFUL DESIGN (check it out: https://artful.design/).
Technology that Knows What You're Feeling: TED2018 Talk Featuring Dr. Poppy Crum
Very interesting talk by Poppy Crum:
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
CCRMA's SLOrk Featured in Wired Magazine
The Aural Magic of Stanford's Laptop Orchestra
CCRMA: Award-winning Faculty!
Please join us in contratulating Dr. Poppy Crum upon receiving two recent awards! Her work on tech industry standards, particularly focusing on improving hearing aid technology, and her leadership as a women in the tech world have been recognized by the Consumer Technology Association and the Advanced Imaging Society. Links to articles are below.
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
Way to go, Poppy!
CTA Honors Five for Outstanding Contributions to Tech Industry Initiatives and Standards
